Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Barns falling down

I drove to Columbus today for a dental appointment with a specialist. I went the back roads for about half the trip, and for some reason today I noticed so many of the barns that are falling down along the roadside. Roofs are caved in, rusty, or blown off, paint faded or entirely gone, siding is missing, walls leaning crazily. Some appeared to be empty but others had "stuff" in them.

By comparison I noticed a number of the Amish barns, which were either new contstruction, or well-maintained and painted white with green roofs. You can tell the Amish farms a few different ways - by the buggies parked in front; by the lack of TV antennas or satellite dishes or electrical lines running to the house, or by the typical clothing hung on the wash line.

I also noticed there aren't many new "bank" style barns, many of the newer barns were metal with peaked roof construction, not the old-fashioned gambrel style roof.

It would be an interesting project to photograph the old barns and find out some of their history, if the owners were willing.

While in Columbus I stopped an visited a bit with my sister. Always love to see her and my brother-in-law, and their two beautiful bouncing baby boys!

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I'm a retired information technology (IT) specialist who worked in automotive manufacturing, production scheduling, materials management, and inventory control. For over 40 years, I have also been pursuing the hobbies of machine knitting and machine embroidery, along with more traditional fiber arts such as spinning, dyeing, weaving, quilting and sewing. I love working with natural fibers like wool, alpaca, angora, and mohair. But I also love the enhanced productivity I can get using modern software and hardware tools to ply my craft.

I prefer to use natural plant-based dyes and sometimes gather my dyestuff from my organic garden or the meadow behind our home.

I am available to teach hand or machine knitting.

I live with the love of my life, my husband. I never knew how to bake a pie until I met him. Now we raise apple trees and honey bees! I love my daughters, four grandchildren and also my step family, kids, grandkids and GREAT-grandkids!